We will have to wait for the final numbers, but it appears that Lexy finishes the week as the Number One Dog All Breeds with a BIS, an RBIS, and a Group One at Friday’s Desert Empire Terrier Club Of Southern California, wins worth approximately 3000 points.

The Brussels Griffon, GCH CH Fist Face A Penny For Your
Thought, had a perfect outing on this first weekend of the new year, taking the
Group One at Friday’s North Star Toy Dog Club and back2back BIS at Saturday’s
and Sunday’s Land O Lakes Kennel Club shows.

GCH CH Lockenhaus Rumor Has It V Kenlyn

On Sunday, Penny, was challenged in judge James Reynold’s
final by the English Springer Spaniel, GCH CH Telltale American Ride, the Norwegian
Elkhound, GCH CH Aspen’s It Takes A Thief, the Siberian Husky, GCH CH Highlander’s
Rumour Has It, the Staffordshire Bull Terrier, GCH CH Cumhill Hell Raiser, the Lhasa
Apso, GCH CH Ha-Lee Kiki-Ari Captain Morgan, and the RBIS, the German Shepherd
Dog, GCH CH Lockenhaus Rumor Has It V Kenlyn.

Penny is the daughter of the winningest Brussel Griffon of
all time, CH Cilleine Masquerade, and now is our second Dog2Watch of 2015.

The first week of the 2015 show season is in the books and several dogs distinguished themselves as potential Top Ten candidates. To no one’s surprise 2014’s Number One Dog All Breeds, the Portuguese Water Dog, GCH CH Claircreek’s Impression de Matisse, posted back2back BIS in Pendleton SC.

GCH CH Ashdown’s Time to Thrill

Sunday’s win came at the Clemson Kennel Club show under judge Robin Stansell. Judge Stansell liked Matisse more than he did the RBIS, the Black Cocker Spaniel, GCH CH Ashdown’s Time to Thrill, whom he liked more than he did the Smooth Dachshund, GCH CH Leoralee’s Barstool Boogie MS, the Welsh Terrier, GCH CH Shaireab’s Bayleigh Maid Of Honor, the Smooth Coat Chihuahua, GCH CH Sonnus Filho (Sanchez), the Bichon Frise, GCH CH Belle Creek’s All I Care About Is Love, and the Cardigan Welsh Corgi, GCH CH Riverside Telltail Coco Posh.

The two wins bring Matisse’s career BIS total to 231, 44 shy of the mark set by the wiiningest dog in AKC history, the German Shepherd Dog, CH Altana’s Mystique.

Sunday, January 4, 2015

Last year’s Number One Sporting Dog, the Brittany, GCH CH Rainbow Splash’s Ruggedly Handsome, jumped started his new year with a Best In Show at Saturday’s Nolan River Kennel Club show in Glen Rose TX.

GCH CH Dezperado's Hallelujah CA

(photo by Gay Glazbrook)

Joining Beckett in judge Robert Frost’s final were the Saluki, GCH CH Baghdad Eleganza Extravaganza, the RBIS, the Doberman Pinscher, GCH CH Dezperado's Hallelujah CA, the American Staffordshire Terrier, GCH CH Explicit’s Full Throttle To Alpine, the Brussels Griffon, GCH CH Sunny Bear's Sonic Boom At Shar's, the Standard Poodle, GCH CH The Siren Of The Sea ByRequest, and the Australian Shepherd, GCH CH Reverie Cameo.

While not as large as the Kennel Club of Palm Springs show, Saturday’s Land O Lakes Kennel Club show drew nearly 1800 dogs. Judge Virginia Lyne’s BIS was the Brussels Griffon, GCH CH Fist Face A Penny For Your Thought.

GCH CH Lockenhaus Rumor Has It V Kenlyn

She also liked the German Shepherd Dog, GCH CH Lockenhaus Rumor Has It V Kenlyn, whom she named her RBIS . Rounding out her seven were the Pointer, GCH CH Kan-Point’s Makin The Chase, the Wirehaired Dachshund, GCH CH Raydach’s Ride My Ducati SW, the Great Dane, CH Alpine’s Song of The South, the West Highland White Terrier, Shalreign’s The Love Bug, and the Dalmatian, GCH CH Blackberry N Riverside Perfect Pemigewasset.

The German Shorthaired Pointer, GCH CH VJK-Myst Garbonita’s California Journey, grabbed the early lead in the rankings Saturday, taking the top prize at the gargantuan Kennel Club of Palm Springs show on the polo field in Indio CA.

CJ burst on the show scene last July when he collected back2back BIS at the Cabrillo Kennel Club shows in Valley Center CA on his first weekend out as a special. He went on to collect a total of three BIS and eleven Sporting Groups in 2014. It is fitting that CJ becomes our first Dog2Watch of 2015. Congratulations to Valerie Nunes-Atkinson, co-breeder/owner Alice Manning, and owner Y Hassler Deter.

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The author has been attending dog shows as a spectator and exhibitor for over 45 years. He is a retired management consultant who has advised multiple organizations affiliated with the AKC and the Cat Fanciers Association on business management, long range planning, customer service, and legislative matters. After 25 years of living in the big cities of New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, he now resides in his hometown of Memphis, TN.

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